Zaitunia Explained

Zaitunia is a genus of crevice weavers that was first described by Pekka T. Lehtinen in 1967.^[1]

Species

it contains 28 species:^[2]

Zaitunia afghana (Roewer, 1962) – Afghanistan
Zaitunia akhanii Marusik & Zamani, 2015 – Iran
Zaitunia alexandri Brignoli, 1982 – Iran
Zaitunia annulipes (Kulczyński, 1908) – Cyprus
Zaitunia beshkentica (Andreeva & Tyschchenko, 1969) – Tajikistan
Zaitunia brignoliana Zonstein & Marusik, 2016 – Iran
Zaitunia darreshurii Zamani & Marusik, 2018 – Iran
Zaitunia ferghanensis Zonstein & Marusik, 2016 – Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan
Zaitunia feti Zonstein & Marusik, 2016 – Turkmenistan
Zaitunia halepensis Zonstein & Marusik, 2016 – Syria
Zaitunia huberi Zonstein & Marusik, 2016 – Afghanistan
Zaitunia inderensis Ponomarev, 2005 – Kazakhstan
Zaitunia kunti Zonstein & Marusik, 2016 – Cyprus, Turkey
Zaitunia logunovi Zonstein & Marusik, 2016 – Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan
Zaitunia maracandica (Charitonov, 1946) – Uzbekistan
Zaitunia martynovae (Andreeva & Tyschchenko, 1969) – Tajikistan
Zaitunia medica Brignoli, 1982 – Iran
Zaitunia minoica Zonstein & Marusik, 2016 – Greece (Crete)
Zaitunia minuta Zonstein & Marusik, 2016 – Uzbekistan
Zaitunia persica Brignoli, 1982 – Iran
Zaitunia psammodroma Zonstein & Marusik, 2016 – Turkmenistan
Zaitunia rufa (Caporiacco, 1934) – Pakistan, India
Zaitunia schmitzi (Kulczyński, 1911) (type) – Egypt, Israel
Zaitunia spinimana Zonstein & Marusik, 2016 – Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan
Zaitunia vahabzadehi Zamani & Marusik, 2016 – Iran
Zaitunia wunderlichi Zonstein & Marusik, 2016 – Kyrgyzstan
Zaitunia zagrosica Zamani & Marusik, 2018 – Iran
Zaitunia zonsteini Fomichev & Marusik, 2013 – Kazakhstan

Notes and References

Lehtinen. P. T.. 1967. Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha.. Annales Zoologici Fennici. 199–468. 4.
Gen. Zaitunia Lehtinen, 1967. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-06-04. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2.